Ian McLean

Australian Aboriginal Art

Greg Lehman, Susan Lowish, Ian McLean

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

As the art world critique of primitivism only began to take hold in the 1980s, Indigenous art history is a new field of study in t..

Indigenising the Australian Artworld: National Culture and State Sovereignty

Ian McLean

Book Chapter  |  2020

In the 1990s, Indigenous art, once the antithesis of Australian national culture, became its brand. Given the history of coloniali..

Notes from a Cross-Cultural Frontier: Investigating Australian Aboriginal Art through Podcasts

Siobhán McHugh, Ian McLean, Margo Neale

Journal article  |  2020  |  Liminalities: a journal of performance studies

Australian Indigenous art is a highly contested site, partly because of the numerous players in the industry. There is a perceptio..

The archival turn in contemporary art

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2019  |  Law & History

Heart of Artness: A journey into the cross-cultural currents that animate Aboriginal art in Australia

Ian McLean, Siobhan McHugh, Margo Neale

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

Future Perfect: The Pukumani Poles

Ian McLean

Journal article  |  2019  |  Curator: The Museum Journal

Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art

Greg Lehman

Book  |  2018

In this book, Ian McLean tells the improbable story of how a culture once viewed as one of the most primitive in the world invente..

'John Mawurndjul- I Am the Old and the New' in 'Artlink'

I McLean

Original Creative Work  |  2018

Western Desert and the Sublime

I McLean

Book Chapter  |  2018

'Imants Tillers: Journey to Nowhere' in 'Artlink'

I McLean

Original Creative Work  |  2018